Bruno talks about his work on the Engine team, developing the syntax for the new MERGE operator, which according to data warehousing metrics is much faster than in previous versions of SQL Server. He also talks about his background in client-side languages
and how that helped him become part of…

Christian Kleinerman is a Group Program Manager and he has been working on SQL Server for 8 years. He talks about some of the key features in SQL Server 2008 that have been delighting customers. An explanation of Resource Governor is also provided.

Peter Zabback talks about his work as a developer and the primary features that he worked on. He talks about challenges like introducing new features without regressions and how this becomes increasingly complex.

Xin talks about the query optimization testing team and how they work to achieve the best performance and delivery. Technical difficulties and his work on the StarJoin features are detailed. He later talks about his position and experience on the team,
starting work early in the process and work…